We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

I am creative in my living space - the designer in me helps that out.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.